Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq - Hardcover
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By All Accounts, the military planning for Operation Iraqi Freedom was magnificent. American air superiority and new smart bomb technologies supported a lightning-fast coalition ground force. In less than a month after the initial assaults, coalition forces swept through ghost-like Iraqi defensive positions to take Baghdad and topple the Saddam Hussein regime.
The plans for peace, however, seem to be nonexistent. An estimated $60 billion was spent to precipitate a regime change in Iraq. The assumptions, widely held in Washington, that the Iraqi people would greet the American forces as "liberators" have been proved wrong as looters and guerrilla elements have created ongoing security problems. The spending continues at a rate of $4 billion per month to stabilize the country during the post-war political power vacuum, while spokesmen for the Bush Administration talk of indefinite tours of duty for American troops in Iraq.
Meanwhile the Iraqi people, coalition forces, and the international community are looking for leadership in post-war Iraq. What is our nation building strategy? What is our timetable for democracy in Iraq? When can we withdraw American troops? How will the Iraqi people survive after the devastation of three wars in the past 25 years?
In Reconstructing Eden, Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom, along with three political and economic experts from CountryWatch, provide a detailed review of the events leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as a comprehensive plan for nation building in Iraq. The Authors answer the tough questions posed above and offer objectives associated with successful nation building in Iraq. They provide specific plans for political and economic development, as well as a forecast for the Iraqi economy, including the petroleum sector.
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About the Author
Thomas E. White Mr. White is the former Secretary of the Army. He was nominated by President Bush, confirmed by the US Senate and served from May of 2001 to May of 2003. Mr. White holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Robert C. Kelly Mr. Kelly is Chairman and CEO of CountryWatch, Inc. He is an expert in stabilization aid in post-war developing economies. Mr. Kelly has a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.P.A. and Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University.
John M. Cape Mr. Cape is a Senior VP of CountryWatch and Editor of the CountryWatch Forecast. The CountryWatch Forecast provides a detailed macroeconomic forecast for each of the 192 countries in the world. Mr. Cape holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Denise Youngblood-Coleman Ms. Youngblood-Coleman is a VP and Editor of CountryWatch Country Review and the Country Wire. Ms. Youngblood-Coleman is a cultural anthropologist and holds a B.A. from King's University; and an M.A. from Rice University where she is also a Ph.D Candidate in Anthropology.
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By all accounts, the military planning for Operation Iraqi Freedom was magnificent. American air superiority and new smart bomb technologies supported a lightning-fast coalition ground force. In less than a month after the initial assaults, coalition forces swept through ghost-like Iraqi defensive positions to take Baghdad and topple the Saddam Hussein regime.
The plans for peace, however, seem to be nonexistent. An estimated $60 billion was spent to precipitate a regime change in Iraq. The assumptions, widely held in Washington, that the Iraqi people would greet the American forces as "liberators", have been proved wrong as looters and guerrilla elements have created ongoing security problems. The spending continues at a rate of $4 billion per month to stabilize the country during the post-war political power vacuum, while spokesmen for the Bush Administration talk of indefinite tours of duty for American troops in Iraq.
Meanwhile the Iraqi people, coalition forces, and the international community are looking for leadership in post-war Iraq. What is our nation building strategy? What is our timetable for democracy in Iraq? When can we withdraw American troops? How will the Iraqi people survive after the devastation of three wars in the past 25 years?
In Reconstructing Eden, Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom, along with three political and economic experts from CountryWatch, provide a detailed review of the events leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as a comprehensive plan for nation building in Iraq. The Authors answer the tough questions posed above and offer objectives associated with successful nation building in Iraq. They provide specific plans for political and economic development, as well as a forecast for the Iraqi economy, including the petroleum sector. Hardcover
Thomas E. White - Former Secretary of the Army. He was nominated by President Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate, and served from May 2001 to May 2003. Mr. White holds a BS from the United States Military Academy and an MS in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Robert C. Kelly - Chairman and CEO of CountryWatch, Inc. He is an expert on stabilization aid in post-war developing economies. Mr. Kelly has a BS from the United States Military Academy and an MPA and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
John M. Cape - Senior VP of CountryWatch and Editor of the CountryWatch Forecast. The Country Watch Forecast provides a detailed macroeconomic forecast for each of the 192 countries in the world. Mr. Cape spent two years in Saudi Arabia working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a military city near the Iraqi border. He holds a BS from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Denise Youngblood Coleman - VP and Editor of the CountryWatch Country Review and the Country Wire. The Country Review provides a strategic overview of each of the 192 countries in the world and the Country Wire provides a real time news service on each of the 192 countries in the world. Ms. Youngblood Coleman holds a B.A. from King s University (Alberta, Canada); and an M.A. from Rice University where she is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology.
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Military Power and Preemption
The war in Iraq in 2003 (War of 2003), as well as the war in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, is illustrative of the superior military power of the United States. Precision-guided munitions and other exemplars of advanced military technologies, in conjunction with remarkably well-trained coalition ground forces in Iraq easily overwhelmed Iraq s defense forces. Not only did the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate the position of the United States as the world s only remaining superpower, they are also the first times that the United States exercised military power within the context of a new national security strategy of preemption.
The preemption strategy holds that the cost to the global community of an attack by terrorist groups -- using weapons of mass destruction -- is so great, that it is in the global national interest to undertake preemptive strikes against terrorists and the states that support them.
The military supremacy demonstrated by the United States, most ostensibly by the war in Iraq, used in this fashion, is regarded by many as a harbinger of hitherto unknown American hegemony. It is also regarded as a portent of a new American empire. Regardless of these perspectives, the National Security Strategy outlined by the Bush administration, calls for pro-active engagement with the rest of the world. Such engagement, however, may well include increased military action undertaken as part of the emerging concept of preemption.
Simply put, the combination of the greatly increased threat of international terrorism and an aggressive new National Security Strategy have combined to significantly lower the threshold for the use of American military force.
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